She taught herself English with the help of homemade vocabulary lists: peccary, pecuniary, perspicacious.
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Maybe the Royals were exceptionally perspicacious; perhaps the Brewers, poorly run, overly sweetened the pot.
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But within these conventions, Coetzee is as perspicacious and erudite a guide as one could hope for.
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As such, artists and art institutions must become increasingly perspicacious about how their works might play into political power games.
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What secured the nomination were two things: the movie's extraordinary quality and the perspicacious marketing department at Netflix's documentary division.
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To be sure, among today's intellectual defenders of the modern right, Douthat is on the more perspicacious end of the spectrum.
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Money that is so easily acquired somehow comes to seem well deserved, because those who have it must be either uniquely perspicacious or divinely favored.
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In these early sections, Rifkind seems to lack the necessary critical distance and appears content to trot dutifully behind her perspicacious heroine, repeating after her.
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Most vivid and revelatory are pieces such as "Boy," whose perspicacious turns and irreverent idiom conjure the rich, jagged textures of a childhood shadowed by loss.
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Well, the book isn't just his; it's more of a joint labor love from the world's most perspicacious chefs, from friends like René Redzepi to Alain Ducasse.
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Anyone familiar with his trio, featuring the venerable bassist Henry Grimes and the perspicacious drummer Chad Taylor, would recognize their set as a classic of its kind.
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Sassy, transcendent, indifferent, defiant, needy, lonely, mothering, perspicacious, and tough, Arnold was one of the first fully-rendered gay human beings that mainstream America would acknowledge as such.
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And then there's the issue of scale: There are as many as 400 billion birds flitting around the planet; pondering their individual, perspicacious consciousnesses can be jaw-dropping, almost sublime.
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"In the late 1990s he wrote 'Single & Single,' which was … incredibly perspicacious about what the economic impact of the collapse of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union would be," Glenny says.
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Perhaps the most perspicacious part of the OPEC/non-OPEC statement on Thursday was the part that acknowledged the "uncertainties associated mainly with supply and, to some extent, demand growth" next year.
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The latest edition, which opens on March 17, was overseen by the perspicacious young curators Mia Locks and Christopher Y. Lew (pictured outdoors at the Whitney with Larry Bell's 2017 sculpture "Pacific Red II").
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I'm just not familiar, except that I worked with one of the Times reporters who covered it, the perspicacious Craig Whitney, and he was still telling pretty riveting stories 25 years later in the newsroom.
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T. Greg Doucette is a Durham-based criminal defense lawyer, fierce civil libertarian and anti-Trump conservative whose perspicacious twitter essays on the grinding nastiness of America's criminal justice system have earned him a wide following.
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Something very much like it was found several years ago in a cave in Yunnan, a province roughly a thousand miles southwest of Wuhan, by a team of perspicacious researchers, who noted its existence with concern.
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Now a perspicacious person named Oliver has created a video aptly titled "Instravel — A Photogenic Mass Tourism Experience," which is a Black Mirror-esque look into how our fixation with capturing the perfect image has homogenized our creativity.
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I had no idea, and worked assiduously on the down side of the grid to get all of these, but some of you may be perspicacious enough to notice the presence of three matching symbols at three meaningful points.
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Mr Blair's other recent interventions in British politics have been similar: speeches delivered in Britain between trips to far-flung parts of the globe, seemingly written at 40,000 feet and thus hampered, despite their perspicacious arguments, by an aura of detachment.
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Have they been bad enough to justify as perspicacious a pundit as E.J. Dionne arguing that "this time, it really is the end of Trump," and that the Donald's looming loss in Wisconsin could cascade into losses in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and even New York?
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Meyer's insights into her paramour are both discerning and droll ("We all pay a price for becoming ourselves, but he's paid a high price to play someone else: a Harvard version of Cary Grant"), and her perspicacious assessments are consistent with the self-possessed woman she was.
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That clip, from the very first "Colbert Report" in 2005, is most famous for Colbert's invention of the word "truthiness," which was itself so perspicacious and so apt a made-up word to describe the preference of politicians for only approximations of the truth, rather than the real thing, that it was chosen "word of the year" by dictionary publisher Merriam Webster.
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This is one of the few puzzles I've done where the notion that someone could sit down and fill out the grid out cleanly is pretty amazing — I guess if you were so big-picture perspicacious that you established the trick that affects half the answers you might have been able to do it, but most of us toss an answer or two onto a grid when getting started.
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This is exactly the kind of label he would find absurd, but over the course of the last four decades, no artist has so consistently broken down the accepted boundaries of the genre in order to bring it closer to the public, with lacerating, perspicacious and gloriously anti-authoritarian projects that play with our received notions of race and class and almost always cut more than one way.
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Bitcoin has fought its way into a valuable and important niche as a widely recognized, fairly widely used, decentralized currency and alternative to gold, which is remarkable… although as pointed out by Adam Back, CEO of Blockstream, crypto OG, and generally extremely perspicacious guy, the rise of other cryptocurrencies is arguably a threat to the whole notion of blockchains-as-currency: a future where a clone-coin over-takes Bitcoin is not good, as it damages confidence in store-of-value & even digital scarcity as concept.
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Skipping obvious choices (no "I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen"), Lethem and Dettmar have compiled an eclectic 50 pieces by 50 eclectic authors, beginning with Nat Hentoff's perspicacious liner notes for "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" (1963); continuing with essays, reviews, profiles, trade reports, histories, fanzine logorrhea and more by writers such as Amiri Baraka, Eve Babitz, Robert Christgau, Ellen Willis and Kelefa Sanneh; and ending with an excerpt from Greil Marcus's "The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs" (113) about an art video of a guitar being dragged down a road by a truck — a tour de force essay in its own right, but one that also serves as commentary and illumination on pretty much everything else in the book.
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His > main desire was to do good works for God. These and other perspicacious men > both consoled me and offered practical help with this book.
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Finally, there are the recipes themselves: ingredients > grouped at the beginning, with weight and advance preparation clearly noted, > and perspicacious, concise directions for compounding and using the > products.Sivin 1968: 50.
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In his analysis, the perspicacious individual is someone who In an article dated October 7, 1966, the journal Science discussed NASA scientist-astronaut program recruitment efforts: Being perspicacious about other people, rather than having false illusions, is a sign of good mental health. The quality is needed in psychotherapists who engage in person-to-person dialogue and counselling of the mentally ill. The artist René Magritte illustrated the quality in his 1936 painting Perspicacity. The picture shows an artist at work who studies his subject intently: it is an egg.
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In his book The Builders of Modern Bulgaria, writer, diplomat and politician Simeon Radev describes Valkovich as follows: "elegant, witty and amusement-loving, he was a perfect social figure; extraordinarily perspicacious, he was also not devoid of slyness".
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"Angola: Opposition Unita Regrets Death of Valentim Amões", AllAfrica, 23 January 2008. Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos said that he "was a dynamic, courageous and perspicacious businessman"."Angola: Head of State Praises Late Valentim Amões' Entrepreneurial Qualities", AllAfrica, 22 January 2008. He was 48.
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Barry Forshaw wrote in The Times that Spoto is "one of the most perspicacious biographers, a man whose insights into his subjects are always razor-sharp." Michael Coveney, in The Guardian, described him as "an American quasi-academic gossipmonger who has produced zestful, authoritative books ...".Coveney, Michael (June 16, 2007). "Guilty Secrets", The Guardian.
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The selections were particularly perspicacious - many are still regarded nearly fifty years later as first-choice performances. A large number have been re-released on CD by the parent companies. Recordings of outstanding technical quality, as from the catalogue of Everest, were also released, if their artistic merit justified their inclusion in the programme.
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Opinionated, dogmatic and determined, Hastings could oppose as a matter of principle, but would never betray the monarch. Hastings was a prolific and hard-working MP requested for many offices, and never out of favour. Despite being from a noble family he thrived on the cut and thrust of Commons procedure; perspicacious, insightful he tried to achieve a balance of power.
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Cover page of Al-Istibsar Al-Istibsar (; Al-Istibsar fi-ma Ukhtulif min al- Akhbar lit. Reflection Upon the Disputed Traditions or The Perspicacious) is a Hadith collection, by the famous Twelver Shia Hadith scholar Abu Jafar Muhammad Ibn Hassan Tusi, commonly known as Shaykh Tusi. This work is included among The Four Books of Shia Islam. It includes the same subjects as Tahdhib al-Ahkam (lit.
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The latter, of course, was no saint himself. San Fernando was not recognized as a town until the early 19th century. The judgement of Carlos III turned out to be perspicacious and sound as, a generation after his death, 12,000 Spanish with some English and Portuguese held Cadiz against a French force of 70,000 under Napoleon in the Siege of Cádiz. All the rest of the country had fallen.
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I don't want fans of my books to descend on my property, so I have to be perspicacious." In 2009, Rawles told an Agence France-Presse reporter: "I'm surrounded by national forest. A river runs through the back end of the property, so there's no shortage of water and no shortage of fish or game to shoot. If Western civilization were to collapse tomorrow, I'd have to read about it on the Internet.
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Sabrina was very well-received by critics. GQ proclaimed it to be "[t]he first great work about our current age of disinformation, paranoia and fake news." In his review for The Guardian, Chris Ware agreed that the novel was "a perspicacious and chilling analysis" of these contemporary issues. Ware was also unnerved by Drnaso's use of discrepancies in the narrative to "incriminat[e] the reader" by luring them to speculate over the fictional murder.
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In a contemporary vernacular vita of his daughter, the biography sums up Azzo's character and reputation: "he was beautiful of form, almost more than all other men. A prudent yet daring man, valiant in feats of arms and of perspicacious learning: a wise and marvellous conversationalist.". . .fue bello de forme quasi più de tuti l’altri homini. Hommo prudente et ardito ualente in facti d’arme et de inzegno perspicace: sapiente et mirabile parladore, quoted in Bertoni.
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It consisted of twelve members elected each month by the Convention, and vested with security, surveillance and police functions, including over civil and military authorities. It employed a large staff, headed the gradually constituted network of local revolutionary committees, and applied the law on suspects by sifting through the thousands of local denunciations and arrests which it then had to try. It struck down the enemies of the Republic whoever and wherever they were. It was socially indiscriminate and politically perspicacious.
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Charlotte's Jane Eyre, Emily's Wuthering Heights, and Anne's Agnes Grey, appeared in 1847 after many tribulations, again for reasons of finding a publisher. The packets containing the manuscripts often returned to the parsonage and Charlotte simply added a new address and did this at least a dozen times during the year. The first one was finally published by Smith, Elder & Co in London. The 23-year-old owner, George Smith, had specialised in publishing scientific revues, aided by his perspicacious reader William Smith Williams.
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Later, as Deryn delivers a message to Count Volger, who learns that Alek had told her of his identity as a prince. After landing in Istanbul, Aleksandar plots an escape from the Leviathan. The night of the escape, Alek is taking watch over Dr. Barlow's eggs when one egg hatches revealing a "perspicacious" loris, as identified later by Dr. Barlow, that seems to understand and repeat various sounds and words in seemingly useful ways. The creature then latches onto Alek and flees with him.
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Once, when asked by Wu Zetian, he finally agreed to leave his hermitage. As he reached the gate of the Temple of the Jealous Woman, he died suddenly. His body was seen decomposing and being consumed by worms, but he was later seen, alive and well, on Zhongtiao Mountain in Hengzhou. In 735, during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang dynasty, Zhang was called to Luoyang, where he was elected as the chief of the Imperial Academy, with the honorable title "Very Perspicacious Teacher".
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It contains a story about King Zhao of Chu (r. 515-489 BCE) reading in the Shujing that the sage ruler Shun "commissioned Chong and Li to cut the communication between heaven and earth". He asks his minister to explain and is told: > Anciently, men and spirits did not intermingle. At that time there were > certain persons who were so perspicacious, single-minded, and reverential > that their understanding enabled them to make meaningful collation of what > lies above and below, and their insight to illumine what is distant and > profound.
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Mukherjee made her debut in 1971 Bengali hit film Shesh Parba opposite Samit Bhanja directed by Chitta Bose. She was catapulted to stardom after she had donned the role of Marjina, a perspicacious maid of Ali Baba, in Dinen Gupta's Blockbuster Marjina Abdulla (1972) opposite Debraj Roy which was a remarkable grosser at box office. She was, then featured in Ashutosh Mukherjee's Nishikanya (1973) opposite Soumitra Chattopadhyay. In 1974, her only venture was Arabinda Mukhopadhyay's Blockbuster Mouchak opposite Ranjit Mallick which was again a major grosser at box office.
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According to the Duchess of Abrantes, "Charles spoke only puns and was the buffoon," but she added that, "he was what is called a strange boy, he made people laugh, it was impossible to find a funnier man." Unlike Napoleon, Charles was extremely relaxed and was not restricted by a constant schedule. Napoleon was always serving the state or following a strict regimen. With Hippolyte Charles, Josephine could relax, joke around with, and even discuss matters like fashion, a subject in which Charles was a very perspicacious authority.
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Goethe is another crucial addition to the Knoxian way of looking at nature. Goethe thought that there were transcendental archetypes in the living world which could be perceived by genus. If the natural historian were perspicacious enough to examine the creatures in this correct order he could perceive—aesthetically—the archetype that was immanent in the totality of a series, although present in none of them. Knox wrote that he was concerned to prove the existence of a generic animal, "or in other terms, proving hereditary descent to have a relation primarily to genus or natural family".
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However, in The Turquoise Lament he admits to a sports-trivia fan that he played professional football for a couple of seasons before his knees were wrecked in a tackle by an opponent from the Detroit Lions. Despite his age, he retains the quickness and agility of a professional athlete. He stands 6′4″ (1.93 m) tall and, although deceptively unimposing at his "fighting weight" of 205 lbs. (93 kg), he is much stronger than he looks, with thick wrists and long arms; occasionally, a more perspicacious adversary notes these features when deciding whether to tangle with him.
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He died childless in Paris on April 5, 1780. His sister, Charlotte-Ursule Renou de Varennes, sole heiress, sold off his estate of maps and mapboards at auction in March 1781; part of it was bought by Jean-Claude Dezauche, publisher and dealer in geographical maps. Jaillot, "one of the most perspicacious and exacting minds of the historiography of the ancien regime," is particularly known for his work Critical, Historical and Topographic Research on the City of Paris , published in five volumes at From 1772. One lane of the 5th district of Paris, the passage Jaillot, (fr) is named in his memory.
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Penn Field was established in 1918 for use of the School of Military Aeronautics conducted by the University of Texas for the United States government. A perspicacious chamber of commerce, anticipating the need in Austin for an aircraft-landing field, secured an option on land just south of Austin. It included a part of the campus of St. Edwards University and some adjacent land owned by Landa, Gruene and Marbach of New Braunfels. General George O. Squire, chief signal officer of the United States Army Signal Corps, deemed 150 acres suitable for a landing field; he approved the site in September 1917.
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Investigations conducted by adoption detectives have potential to result in lengthy arduous or convoluted worldwide investigations across international borders and geographic regions. They may create unexpected adventures reminiscent of classic mystery novels leading to the discovery of previously hidden information, sometimes leading in directions not originally anticipated, or what the genealogist, detective, mystery writer, or client originally had in mind. Exposure of information intentionally concealed may lead to unintended consequences or produce negative emotional outcomes. Adoption detectives need to retain a perspicacious mind to master the elegant art of detection, and remain ever vigilant to the potential for psychological trauma that may be caused by exposing unwilling individuals.
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He was felicitated as "FIRST Dalitmitra" accolade by Government of Maharashtra state (India). His son late Mr.Sunit Dhanji Bonde was awarded with "Jamnalal Bajaj Award" in 1987 by then prime minister Rajeev Gandhi for devoting his entire life in the service of 'ADIVASI' people in Satpuda ranges. His younger brother Mr.Manohar Maharu Chaudhari is also freedom fighter,famous sculpturist and fine artist and has been a founder of Saptput Lalitkala Bhavan(Fine Art College) founded in 1965 and has worked as the Principal for twenty years. He is one of the great poets and only perspicacious people have been able to understand the profundity of his poems.
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The novel portrays Xue Baochai as a perspicacious and talented woman whose marriage became a tragedy because Jia Baoyu, her husband, is never able to truly forget Lin Daiyu, his true love, after the latter died before they could get married. There is a tragic song in chapter five which foreshadows her fate. In the Cheng-Gao version of the novel, Xue Baochai marries Jia Baoyu under the machinations of Wang Xifeng and Grandmother Jia, causing Lin Daiyu's death through grief. However, many Redology scholars have commented that this is unlikely since, according to Zhiyanzhai and the clues of foreshadowing, Lin Daiyu dies well before their eventual wedding.
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Shortly before his death, Judge Liebowitz was taken to task by Alexander Solzhenitsyn for comments he made in 1959 about the Soviet penal system: "What an intelligent, far-sighted humane administration from top to bottom," wrote 65-year-old Leibowitz after visiting the USSR: "In serving out his term of punishment the prisoner retains a feeling of dignity." Solzhenitsyn commented: "Oh, fortunate New York State, to have such a perspicacious jackass for a judge!"Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, Volume Two, Harper & Row: New York, 1976, p. 147. Solzhenitsyn used Leibowitz' remark to criticise Western naivety about the Soviet regime and its penal system.
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For a long time it was believed by many scholars that Ptahhotep wrote the first book in history. His book was entitled The Maxims of Ptahhotep. As the Vizier, he wrote on a number of topics in his book that were derived from the central concept of Egyptian wisdom and literature which came from the goddess Maat. She was the daughter of the primordial and symbolized both cosmic order and social harmony. Ptahhotep’s instruction was written as advice to his people in the hopes of maintaining this said "social order". He wrote perspicacious advice covering topics from table manners and proper conduct for success in court circles to handy hints to the husband for preserving his wife’s beauty.
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The countess held a prominent place in society since her husband held office under Louis-Philippe and later under Napoleon III, and was ambassador at Vienna, and (1860) to the Court of St. James's (London), and finally resided at Paris as Grand Chancellor of the Légion d'honneur. The countess, who was one of the lady patronesses of Almack's and who was a prominent member of polite society, took part in all his social and political work. She was a prolific and perspicacious letter writer, and much of her correspondence is held in the Archives nationales, Paris.See Archives du général Charles de Flahaut et de sa famille : 565 AP : inventaire (online version at the Hathi Trust).
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A Dutch newspaper at the time praised Bredius for the purchase: "With this acquisition of the new Delft Vermeer, the New Testament, as an Eglon van der Neer, Dr. Bredius has once again found a bargain with his perspicacious eye." Bredius then loaned the work to the Mauritshuis, where it remained for the next 24 years, until 1923 when Bredius gave it to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam for a long-term loan. Bredius disliked the work, calling it (in 1907) "a large but unpleasant Vermeer". In 1928, he sold it through the dealer Kleinberger to Michael Friedsam in New York, who bequeathed it in 1931 as part of the Friedsam Collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it has remained.
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Sarajlija's prose." Eminent Serbian writer and critic Ilija Bakić wrote about the novel The mirror for the vampire: "Adrijan Sarajlija's novel is an unrestrained, perspicacious and witty narrative that confirms author's notable place among the younger Serbian fiction writers deserved by the collection of Manufactures G. " In a cultural supplement to the eminent Politika newspaper, June 16, 2012, an extensive review of Sarajlija's novel was signed by political scientist Prof. Alexander L. Jugović, one of the leading Serbian theorists of social deviance. He writes: "Using horror, the author tells us that sex, power, and media fame are the key values of a spectacle society... Sarajlija uses the metamorphosis of Professor Eduard into a vampire ("vampirinho") to show us the fears of a man living in modern society: because of belonging, social status, sexual orientation, health….
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In other local elections, he also became the President of the Municipal Assembly of Cascais and the President of the Municipal Assembly of Celorico de Basto. He had a weekly program of political analysis every Sunday on public TV station RTP after previously having a similar program on the private TV station TVI, where he was introduced as being "the wisest and most perspicacious political analyst of current times". His comments covered everything from politics to sports, including his famous presentations and comments on the newest published books, and they were sometimes controversial, some of the comments being seen as personal and political attacks. In his analysis, still in TVI, he often attacked Pedro Santana Lopes, accusing him of being "truculent, a cudgeller and resentful", and not "having the profile to be a President of the Republic".
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The Patriot Revolt, its causes and its denouement in the Prussian intervention were of great interest to the Founding Fathers. This is illustrated by Federalist Paper No. 20, written by James Madison and published under the pseudonym Publius on 11 December 1787 in the context of the debate about the United States Constitution, more particularly about the defects of the Articles of Confederation and similar constitutions. After a perspicacious description and analysis of the constitution of the Dutch Republic the paper continues: In other words, an example to avoid. The Paper explicitly refers to the Prussian intervention, but apparently the news of its success had not yet reached the U.S. by the time of the paper's publication, as the wording leaves the hope open that the Patriots will prevail: Presentation of the Act of Guarantee by a delegation of the States General to William V on 10 July 1788 at Huis ten Bosch In the Dutch Republic, meanwhile, Harris did his best to insure that such an outcome would not come about; that there would not be a repeat of the Patriot Revolt; and that the stadtholderian regime would remain on top in perpetuity.
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His reign was the outstanding creative period of the Safavid era. But the civil wars and troubles of his childhood (when many of his relatives were murdered) left him with a dark twist of suspicion and brutality at the centre of his personality." Donald Rayfield described him as "exceptionally perspicacious and active," but also "a murderous paranoiac when aroused." The Cambridge History of Iran rejects the view that the death of Abbas marked the beginning of the decline of the Safavid dynasty as Iran continued to prosper throughout the 17th century, but blames him for the poor statesmanship of the later Safavid shahs: "The elimination of royal princes, whether by blinding or immuring them in the harem, their exclusion from the affairs of state and from contact with the leading aristocracy of the empire and the generals, all the abuses of the princes' education, which were nothing new but which became the normal practice with Abbas at the court of Isfahan, effectively put a stop to the training of competent successors, that is to say, efficient princes prepared to meet the demands of ruling as kings.
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